Chinese-Croatian Joint Colloquium on "Long span bridges"

The main objective of this Colloquium is to exchange experiences and to present main achievements in the area of Arch Bridges Engineering among the engineers from China and Croatia. The Colloquium will contain the state-of-the-art of the arch bridges at present, with Chinese contributions on latest Chinese achievements (including concrete, CFST and steel arch bridges) and Croatian contributions on mainly Croatian and some significant European arch bridges.

The Colloquium is organized by University of Zagreb - Faculty of Civil Engineering and Fuzhou University - College of Civil Engineering, based on bilateral project under the title "Exploring the limits of reinforced concrete arch bridges" (more...)

Networks for sustainable environment and high quality of life

It is my great pleasure to invite you to join us in Croatia on international conference and EurekaBuild event "Networks for sustainable environment and high quality of life".

Networks represent the largest part of our built environment including transport infrastructures - roads, railways & waterways, and infrastructures of services - gas, water, energy, telecommunications & postal services. European Construction Technology Platform identified integrated system of networks as the fundamental backbone through which European social cohesion and economic growth is being promoted and developed. Networks are the basis of the European competitiveness against strong competitors and low cost economies. (more...)

Fib 2007.

The Symposium will be held in Dubrovnik in the Hotel "Croatia", Cavtat, from Sunday to Wednesday, May 20-23, 2007. The scientific part of the Symposium will take place in the Congress Center of Hotel "Croatia" in Cavtat.

The fib Symposium "Concrete Structures - Stimulators of Development" shall cover the following topics:

Up-to-date Symposium information can be found at the official symposium website www.igh.hr/fib-dubrovnik-2007. All forms will be available for downloading on this website, as well as the link for on-line registration. (more...)

Construction Aspects of Heritage Protection - Research Needs

The global objective of European care for heritage protection is to promote new sustainable and preventive strategies, concepts, methodologies and techniques for conservation and restoration of cultural heritage in order to improve the quality of life of citizens and the attractiveness of Europe, particularly its cities, buildings and landscapes.

The importance of this cultural wealth can be measured in economic and social terms, in employment, job creation and has considerable impact in many areas such as the environment, construction, tourism, regional development to enhance the European competitiveness and skills.

The Conference and Brokerage event is intended to bring forward the research ideas for projects to be launched within the forthcoming seven-year period of research supported by European Commission through 7th Framework Programme, European Industry and authorities of EU Member and Candidate States. (more...)